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herdsman

[hurdz-muhn] / ˈhɜrdz mən /


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On this recent evening, the puppeteer Kennedy Kanagawa was out sick, but his understudy, Cameron Johnson, was an able herdsman for Jack’s pal, Milky White.

From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2022

Now at 31, he is the herdsman and co-manages the dairy farm alongside his father.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 27, 2021

Farmers and herders once lived harmoniously on Nigeria’s bucolic central plateau, but when Amos Lenji, a farmer, caught a young herdsman grazing cattle in his cornfields this October, he feared for his life.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2018

However, this same conclusion is reached by each and every rational herdsman sharing the commons.

From Textbooks ● Sep. 6, 2018

Often he was able to enter her presence in disguise, now as a rude reaper bringing her a basket of barley-ears, now as a clumsy herdsman, or a vine-pruner.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Or her Delhi architecture school days, when she was too broke for jewellery and wore "cow beads" - fat glass beads strung across cow horns, bought off herdsmen near the hostel.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025

New study by ICTA-UAB and the University of Cádiz reveals that the first farmers and herdsmen settled in Andalusia collected and consumed shellfish throughout the year, especially in winter.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 15, 2024

Bavarian herdsmen prepare their clothes before they drive their beasts during the return of the cattle from the summer pastures in the mountains near Oberstdorf, Germany.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2023

Villagers had seen "strange herdsmen" setting up camp near the area in the days before the attacks began.

From Reuters ● Dec. 20, 2022

Many of them live on mission stations or government reserves, or else work for whites as herdsmen on cattle stations.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond


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